Dear Anita,

I can understand that the sadness/sickness I felt when I was younger is being reactivated with my girlfriend and the obseessive thinking I sometimes have towards her.

I think the wall kicking occurred before I knew about the sexual relations adults have, but was there to get attention from my mother because I felt like my step father was taking her away from me.

It’s difficult to deal with this underlying condition because I can never predict when it is going to resurface.. I can feel so good for a period of time and then spiral into my obsessive thoughts making me feel depressed. I am curious as to how psychotherapy would work? It’s somewhat of a difficult situation for me to get psychotherapy right now, but I’ve had it before and it did help I believe. I’m just wondering what it will do with my past and how that works to resolve my problems now. Is it the talking it out that changes your perspective or is this something that will take behavioral changes to see progress? Psychotherapy does sound like a good option to me, it’s just not always convenient with school and such, but I will try to figure something out.

Scott